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Definition of megalopolis in English:

megalopolis

noun

‘Satellite photos illustrate the same reality: the entire stretch of coast from Abidjan eastward to Lagos in Nigeria is one burgeoning megalopolis.’

‘In fact, the city is more of an international megalopolis along the lines of New York, than the mere capital of England.’

‘The Harrisons argue that these strips of green would contribute to natural purification of air and water, while warding off a future in which central Holland is transformed, largely thanks to suburbanization, into a megalopolis.’

‘The action is set in a suburb outside East London when the city has grown into a megalopolis of 30 miles in radius.’

‘Needless to say that it was not quite easy for a young and unknown artist in a megalopolis like Paris.’

‘These megalopolises have swelled with 100 million new residents since the mid-1970s.’

‘Seoul today is a megalopolis of more than 10 million.’

‘This sprawling megalopolis of more than twenty million continues to increase in size and population every year.’

‘Dhaka, founded by the Mughals in 1608, is the sprawling capital city and is fast turning into a megalopolis of over nine million people.’

‘The downside of this influx to the great megalopolis was the rise of the urban slum.’

‘Pointedly punctuating the film are aerial shots of the megalopolis rendered abstract by its immense repetitiveness.’

‘Business travelers vie to escape the megalopolis on weekends, leaving behind the pollution, traffic, street crime, and crush of its 16 million inhabitants.’

‘For me growing up in the border regions of the United States, the San Diego / Tijuana general megalopolis, code-switching and speaking in two languages is something that millions of people do.’

‘It is easy to construct parking bays out of perforated, prefabricated paving elements filled with grass, so that the entire parking network throughout a megalopolis could be transformed into a landscape.’

‘Due to the constant earthquakes, this megalopolis does not and cannot have a good public transportation system in the form of subways to diffuse the load on its roads.’

‘Anyone wishing to understand Japan must sooner or later come to grips with the astounding megalopolis that is modern Tokyo.’

‘By the 1960s, urban sprawl had created enormous megalopolises.’

‘The recent efforts of cities to strengthen their competitive position as hubs of the megalopolis are paying off.’

‘High-end properties in the Chinese megalopolis have shot up 20% during the past three months alone.’

‘But the Los Angeles of 2000 is much more: the megalopolis of California, which itself has emerged since 1960 as by far the nation's most populous state.’